Absentee Dad

Had to go back to work today, which happens to be a couple hours south of Dallas. I found it very hard to concentrate and be productive (Mark, please ignore that last statement and substitute it with this: I was like a buzz saw at work, doing the job of of 3 people). Its very difficult to be away. I could have missed the first time he threw a spiral or solved a New York Times crossword puzzle. He's probably just laying there sleeping, but you never know.

So today's update comes second hand from Rebecca and her mom, who graciously drove over from Shreveport to look after Rebecca while I'm gone this week. Thomas is doing very well. He's getting more and more back to his old (relatively speaking, not a huge body of work there) self. He specifically very defiant about being swaddled. They try to do their best about recreating the womb environment, including kind of enclosing him securely. He's really having none of that, doing lots of kicking and stretching his legs out.

We're in healing and growing mode. There are no specific plans to do anything coming up, just wait and see.

Rebecca also got to see his tongue today. I can only assume he was sticking it out because he thought she was about to take a picture.